2014 Program
BiBV Program Schedule
October 23–24, 2014
Thursday, October 23, 2014
8:00 – 8:50
Coffee
8:50 – 9:00
Peter Brantley, New York Public Library
Welcome to Books in Browsers V!
9:00 – 9:30
Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
9:30 – 9:50
Matthew Battles, metaLAB at Harvard; Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Bearing the Standard: Histories of Cooperative Innovation
9:50 – 10:10
Mitar Milutinovic, PeerLibrary/UC Berkeley
Making a library a digital one
10:10 – 10:20
group discussion
10:20 – 10:40
break
10:40 – 11:00
Richard Nash
The True Quantified Self: Give Users their own damn reading data
11:00 – 11:20
Nicole Ozer, ACLU
Retaining Your Privacy in the Facebook Age
11:20 – 11:30
group discussion
11:30 – 11:50
break
11:50 – 12:10
Tzviya Siegman, Wiley
The Inadvertent Accessible Content Architect
12:10 – 12:30
Ivan Herman, W3C, Liza Daly, Safari, & Markus Gylling, IDPF
Bridging the Web and Digital Publishing
12:30 – 12:50
Dave Cramer, Hachette Book Group
From Scrolls to Flows: Books and the New CSS
12:50 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 14:20
Peter Armstrong, Leanpub
Standardizing Markdown Mapping to Books and Documentation
14:20 – 14:40
Michael Kowalski, Contentment
Designing for intimacy
14:40 – 14:50
group discussion
14:50 – 15:10
break
15:10 – 15:30
Scott Cipriano & James Densmore, Safari
What You Will Read Next
15:30 – 15:50
Katie Zhu, Medium
I made you a mixtape
15:50 – 16:00
group discussion
16:00 – 16:20
Liisa McCloy-Kelley, Penguin Random House
Thinking About “Books” in More Than Two Dimensions
16:20 – 16:40
Johanna Drucker, UCLA
Database Narratives in Book and Online
16:40 – 17:00
group discussion and end of day
Friday, October 24, 2014
8:00 – 8:50
coffee
8:50 – 9:00
welcome
9:00 – 9:20
Ben De Meester, Ghent University – iMinds – Multimedia Lab, Belgium
Interlinking books with the world: Using the Semantic Web to create books as reliable, machine-understandable information service providers
9:20 – 9:40
Peter Meyers, Citia
Skim, Grok, Master: Multi-scale Reading and the Zoomable Book
9:40 – 9:50
group discussion
9:50 – 10:10
break
10:10 – 10:30
John Hammersley, WriteLaTeX
Collaborative Writing
10:30 – 10:50
Adam Hyde, PLOS
Open Access and Standards
10:50 – 11:00
group discussion
11:00 – 11:20
break
11:20 – 11:40
Derrick Schultz, Atavist Books, Creatavist
As Goes the Web, so Goes Books on the Web
11:40 – 12:00
Micah Bowers, Bluefire Productions
EPUB: Beyond the Ebook
12:00 – 12:20
Sanders Kleinfeld, O’Reilly Media, Inc.
The Ebook Avant-Garde
12:20 – 12:30
group discussion
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 13:50
Robert J Glushko, UC Berkeley
Creating the Multivalent Book
13:50 – 14:10
Simon Groth, if:book Australia
Memory Makes Us: Collaboration and the ephemeral in digital writing
14:10 – 14:20
group discussion
14:20 – 14:40
break
14:40 – 15:00
John Maxwell & Haig Armen, Simon Fraser U.
Digital Fiction on the Open Web Platform
15:00 – 15:20
Hugh McGuire, Pressbooks / LibriVox
Vision, Strategy, Architecture: Where is the new publishing ecosystem?
15:20 – 15:30
group discussion
15:30 – 15:50
break
15:50 – 16:40
James English & Leonard Richardson, New York Public Library
Library Simplified & Project Gutenberg books are real books
16:40 – 16:50
au revoir!